What drives our behaviors in buildings? A review on occupant interactions with building systems from the lens of behavioral theories

A Heydarian, C McIlvennie, L Arpan, S Yousefi… - Building and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Occupant behavior has a significant impact on building systems' operations and efficiency.
As a result, several innovative approaches have been introduced to quantify the dynamics of …

Environmental impacts of textiles in the use stage: A systematic review

Y Luo, X Wu, X Ding - Sustainable Production and Consumption, 2023 - Elsevier
Textiles with high global demand and consumption are a necessity in people's daily lives,
and assessing and reducing the environmental impact of their use stage can make a …

Energy transitions from the cradle to the grave: a meta-theoretical framework integrating responsible innovation, social practices, and energy justice

BK Sovacool, DJ Hess, R Cantoni - Energy Research & Social Science, 2021 - Elsevier
An almost inexhaustible number of conceptual approaches has arisen in the past few
decades to seek to explain the interlinked phenomena of energy transitions, low-carbon …

[HTML][HTML] Demand-side solutions for climate mitigation: Bottom-up drivers of household energy behavior change in the Netherlands and Spain

L Niamir, O Ivanova, T Filatova, A Voinov… - Energy Research & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Households are responsible for 70% of CO 2 emissions (directly and indirectly). While
households as agents of change increasingly become a crucial element in energy …

The advent of practice theories in research on sustainable consumption: Past, current and future directions of the field

F Corsini, R Laurenti, F Meinherz, FP Appio, L Mora - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
The application of practice theories in the domain of sustainability research in consumer
studies is increasingly advocated based on the premise that this allows to analyse …

[HTML][HTML] Stocks, flows, services and practices: Nexus approaches to sustainable social metabolism

H Haberl, M Schmid, W Haas, D Wiedenhofer… - Ecological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Societies use material and energy resources to build up, maintain and utilize long-lasting
structures such as buildings, infrastructures or machinery, ie entertain a 'social metabolism' …

The meaning of meat:(Un) sustainable eating practices at home and out of home

G Biermann, H Rau - Appetite, 2020 - Elsevier
Many sociological accounts of life in the 21st century include reflections on the dissolution of
distinctions between the public and private sphere, aided by social media and information …

Ethical pro-environmental self-identity practice: the case of second-hand products

SM Arman, C Mark-Herbert - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
As part of sustainable development, more attention is being placed on consumer behavior.
Revised economic models have resulted in an understanding of the need for a circular …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding diversity in farmers' routinized crop protection practices

A Kaiser, P Burger - Journal of Rural Studies, 2022 - Elsevier
Present-day agricultural crop protection relies heavily on synthetic pesticides, which are
known to adversely affect the environment and human health. As remediation, European …

Drivers and barriers toward healthy and environmentally sustainable eating in Switzerland: Linking impacts to intentions and practices

I Baur, KS Stylianou, A Ernstoff, R Hansmann… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Food consumption is among the activities with the most significant environmental impacts,
and furthermore contributes to rising health costs. We explored the factors that foster or …